Hack-Nation · Challenge 02 · Maschmeyer Group

VC Brain

Find exceptional founders before they fundraise — scored by distribution gravity, not pedigree. A human investor gets a $100K decision-support memo within 24 hours.

Open radar Judge demo path Thesis engine

Distribution gravity

Same check size. Different pull.

Illustrative example — not a live candidate.

Cold-start founder

Small audience · high velocity

Pedigree · quiet

Large audience · low pull

Open gravity compare Open radar

Sourcing

Identify live: GitHub · Hacker News · arXiv. Hackathons / Product Hunt / accelerators: coming soon (never fabricated). Activate → Converge into one funnel with inbound.

Screening

First-pass gate · 3 axes never averaged (Founder / Market / Idea-vs-Market) · thesis lens · persistent Founder Score with cold-start mode.

Diligence

Per-claim Trust Score · contradiction flags · URL verify when evidence links exist · validator before the memo.

Decision

Evidence memo + gaps + $100K yes/no/watch (decision-support, not an investment offer) · full agent traces.

How to start

Open radar — Identify · refresh for live GitHub + HN + arXiv signals
Gravity compare — cold-start distribution vs quiet pedigree on the same thesis
Diligence probe claim → Screen → evidence memo for a $100K decision-support check (not an investment offer)

Same engine as the marketing fleet

vibemarketer manufactures distribution. VC Brain measures it to source founders. Shared spine: ingest → memory → reason → trace.